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...December 1944 when Hitler's Panzer divisions mounted the last great German offensive of World War II. Tiger tanks and infantry spat destruction against the Allied invaders, thrusting them back through the Ardennes forest along a lightly guarded 85-mile front to gouge out a bleeding chunk of Luxembourg, France and eastern Belgium. What happened at the Bulge? According to a trio of Hollywood script writers, the Allies were caught flat-footed because nobody would listen to Henry Fonda...
...heart of the matter are the "lost territories" east of the Oder and Neisse rivers-a 44,130-sq.-mi. chunk of prewar Germany that was ceded to Poland in 1945 by the victors of World War II. In the process, nearly 12 million Germans were uprooted and sent streaming westward in an apocalyptic migration that took 2,000,000 lives. Some 8,000,000 "expellees" remain in West Germany today, and though many have lost much of their fierce irredentist zeal, their presence is a constant reminder to the German government of the need to regain the lost territories...
Legislation allowing Massachusetts to donate a large chunk of the Bennett Street transit yards for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library began a swift and facile journey through the Great and General Court yesterday...
Only good defense by fullbacks Karl Lunkheimer and Tony Marks, some sparkling saves by Bowditch, and an extra chunk of luck gave the Crimson a 1-0 at the half. Harvard had scored with less than five minutes gone in the game when Charles Njoku knocked in a rebound...
...poor Alain wrapped up in a plot to heist a million dollars' worth of platinum wire. Double and triple crosses pop in and out as if run through a revolving door, and thriller fans will find a plenitude of such ritual sounds as the squeal of tires, the chunk of a silenced gun and the rat-a-tat of sound-track percussion to activate their endocrines...